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^^ Our London Correspondent^ 65 special interest, which under the old rigime^ if noticed at all, instead of being related in crisp paragraphs would have been embedded in a woolly leading article a column long. The morning metropolitan papers have taken to imitate the London correspondent's work under some such heading as " London Day by Day," or " This Day's News." In the London evening papers the paragraphs are more gossipy than in the morning journals, and have as their title "Tittle-Tattle," "About Men and Things," "Mis- cellanea," etc. It was the London correspondent who popularized the paragraphic style of journalism, and lead the way for the society papers/ and to-day he finds both the metropolitan and provincial Press vying with each other in mirroring every morning all those incidents which go to make up London life at the close of the I nineteenth century.